One of the goals for the Cyber Teen Project, written for teenage audiences, is to make learning as fun as possible. In 2011, the idea for the book came to me. I started writing scenes about email hacking, and the more I wrote, the more I realized that I needed more structure. I created a list of cybersecurity concepts that I wanted to cover. It changed over time, and I updated and expanded it.
Cyber Teen ProjectAnother goal of this book is to teach kids situational awareness. I grew up in the eighties, and my father always tried to emphasize “awareness of” your surroundings. Decades later, human trafficking has reached almost epidemic levels in the United States, and the world. Kids are kidn*pped every day, even in broad daylight.
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